[nagdu] Fw: [Nfbf-l] Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own WearableTechnology

[Doug Parisian]

In all probability, the developer was sighted, but hey, we really don't know 
that.

The fact is, I have received more positive and insightful help from those 
terrible sighted people than I've ever experienced from other totally blind 
folks.  I doubt that Dorothy was blind?

Doug: Seeing is believing, feeling is confirmation!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Fw: [Nfbf-l] Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own 
WearableTechnology


:I don't need my guide dog to tell me there's an obstacle in front of us,
: really.  He already tells me by going around it.  I guess it would make it
: more clear when he's doing his job and when he's going over to cop a
: sniff, but that hardly seems worth the trouble of teaching him to use some
: gadget.
: Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like another example of
: something sighted people think we need that we actually don't.
: It's interesting, but to me it doesn't seem particularly useful.
: Tracy
:
: > Fascinating!
: >
: > Sherri
: > ----- Original Message -----
: > From: "Alan Dicey" <adicey at bellsouth.net>
: > To: "NFB Florida List Group" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
: > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 4:29 PM
: > Subject: [Nfbf-l] Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own
: > WearableTechnology
: >
: >
: > Someday Your Guide Dog May Have Their Own Wearable Technology
: > Wearable computing seems to be the next frontier. The Pebble watch and
: > Google Glass are being raved about, but wearable technology doesn't just
: > have to be for humans. Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on a 
system
: > called FIDO, or Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations. The
: > idea is that the dog could activate a sensor that would then transmit
: > either
: > a verbal command into a headset or a visual command onto a screen. For
: > example, a bomb sniffer dog could tell his handler what kind of bomb it
: > is,
: > or a rescue dog could alert someone that he found an injured person. A
: > guide
: > dog could tell us that there is an obstruction to our right or in front 
of
: > us. According to the article in technology review, "In an early study, 
the
: > researchers equipped a dog vest with an Arduino microprocessor and 
tested
: > four different sensors that dogs could activate by biting, tugging, or
: > putting their mouth nearby. The three service dogs participating in the
: > test
: > quickly learned to activate the sensors to set off a tone."
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